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From the James Martin Center: DeVos’s department is also deeply involved in higher education, but the issues are different. What roils higher education are problems such as excessive costs, lack of intellectual diversity, faltering academic quality, federal overregulation, and threats to free speech and due process. DeVos must appoint a deputy undersecretary for higher education […]

One of our favorite economists, Richard Vedder, actually looked at the numbers, starting with constant dollars that factor out inflation.

“In the surreal world of student loans, the brilliant student completing an electrical engineering degree at M.I.T. pays the same interest rate as the student majoring in ethnic studies at a state university who has a GPA below 2.0.”—Ohio University economist Richard Vedder

Read highlights of the April Accuracy in Academia author’s night that featured veteran economist Richard Vedder in the latest issue of AIA’s Campus Report.

Accuracy in Academia will host a complimentary dinner discussion regarding affordable college tuition rates with Richard Vedder, author of Going Broke by Degree: Why College Costs Too Much on April 7, 2011.

Offering an alternative to the U. S. News & World Report college rankings, economist Richard Vedder will be the featured speaker at Accuracy in Academia’s April 7, 2011 author’s night dinner from 6-8 PM at the Van Andel Center at the Heritage Foundation.

Many of the young Americans who pursue higher education should not be in college, Dr. Walter Williams said during an interview on The Alex Nitzberg Show. On the podcast, the George Mason University Professor of Economics said that according to some statistics “close to” half of college freshman need remedial education, which indicates that those […]

A panel discussion brought up the idea that maybe government intervention in universities was a big mistake, taking into account issues facing higher education as of late.

A surprising number of views held by political conservatives about higher education are shared by people who don’t share their philosophy, or at least their party label.

But you have to go online. Can it be that the tuition you pay at the old bricks and mortar institutions is literally for bricks and mortar?

When an actual scholar grades it.

Right now, parents and taxpayers are getting skinned off of defaulted student loans and rising tuition.